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"Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure."
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"He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread."
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"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."
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"When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go."
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"Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born."
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"What one state could not get alone, what one miner against a powerful corporation could not achieve, can be achieved by the union."
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
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"Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s."
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"Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first."
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"Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow."
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Explore more quotes by Brooks Atkinson

"The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one."
Life

"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go."
God

"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."
Age

"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge."
Man

"After each war there is a little less democracy to save."
War

"There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town."
Joy

"It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth."
Life

"Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first."
Labor

"People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know."
People
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